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In the MWC this month HTC announced a couple of devices running Google Android OS. Among those HTC Desire S and Wildfire S are coming with latest Android 2.3 gingerbread preloaded. And one of the newly announced phone, Incredible S comes with Android 2.2 installed. Now before the ending of month HTC already assured it users that they will be given Android 2.3 as OTA update by the end of June this year.

However, the good news is if you are year old user of HTC Android mobile phones like original Desire, Desire Z, Desire HD then Android 2.3 update is also waiting for you. HTC will give you this updates in June too. That is awesome.Source

Android powered mobile phones are already ruling the world by defeating Nokia Symbian and Apple iOS phones. But till now all the Android mobile phones are made for GSM based networks. But now in 2011 HTC decided to go for CDMA market with Android running phone. On February 25 HTC announced about CDMA based Android 2.2 running HTC Merge will be available to multiple US carriers like Verizon & Sprint from the beginning of spring 2011.
The HTC Merge combines with a QWERTY keyboard and large 2.8 inches capacitive 16M color touch screen of 480 X 800 pixels. This HTC CDMA Merge smartphone has a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and flash has the ability to capture high-definition 720p video. The HTC Merge smartphone also comes with integrated GPS, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity with global roaming. Combining the functionality of Android OS with the HTC Sense experience, HTC Merge must satisfy you with all the Google mobile services onboard.
We still do not know anything about HTC Merge mobile phone pricing and worldwide availability. Its CPU power is also a mystery too.

Android mobile phones are the people’s 1st choice around the world. Many Indian mobile phone buyers are now also looking to buy Android phones for its cool features. However, it is hard for many of them to choose an Android phone in reasonable cheap price. Because most of the best Android phones are as healthy as their price. So I decided to write this article for you to help you to choose your desired Android phones around 10000 Rs. So let’s begin.

Huawei Ideos: If you are looking for a fully features Android phone in cheapest price than no phones can match with Huawei Ideos. It has 2.8’’ touchscreen 528 MHz ARM 11 processor, Adreno 200 GPU. It supports 32 GB RAM. Connectivity of Huawei U8150 IDEOS is very compact. It has GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Wi-Fi b/g/n and GPS. Most importantly is runs Android 2.2 froyo like all the major Android mobile phones in the world. Where the price of Huawei Ideos is $324 in rest of the countries but Indians can buy this phone at a amazing price of 8000 rupees, which is only $176. This is one of best cheapest Android phones found in India now. You can also buy Ideos from Amazon for $188 only.

Micromax A60: After releasing many java powered phones, Indian mobile phone manufacturer Micromax released an Android powered phone for the Indian market at an affordable price. New Micromax A60 mobile phone runs on Android 2.1 Éclair. Its 600 MHz processor is combined with all the best mobile features like 2.8’’ touch screen, 3.2 MP camera, 1280 mAh battery. GPS and Wi-Fi is onboard. Price of this Micromax Android phone must attract you. They will sell A60 mobile phone in just 6630 rupees($146). To know more details about Micromax A60 check this review now.*Update: New version of Micromax Android, A70 is out now. Click here for details.Samsung I5800 Galaxy 3: Samsung Galaxy 3 mobile phone runs Android 2.1 now with Android 2.2 support built in. It has 667 MHz processor and Bluetooth 3.0. Its battery life is also good with 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery onboard. Price of Samsung Galaxy 3 is around 11,000 Rs($242) in India. To buy unlocked Samsung Galaxy 3 from anywhere in the World you can go to Amazon now. They are selling Samsung Galaxy 3 for $220 now.LG Optimus One: LG Optimus one will be a better choice for you if you are looking for a better brand value mobile in cheaper & comparative price in India. Optimus One mobile phone has a larger display of 3.2 inches in size and 3.2 autofocus camera on the back. Most importantly LG Optimus One Android 2.2 can be upgraded to Android 2.3 gingerbread in near future. It has better processing power too, 600 MHz CPU. Wi-Fi and 3G present here too. Price of this amazing cheap Android phone is just 11,500 Indian Rupees($253). Amazon.com offers unlocked LG Optimus One for $199 now.Samsung Galaxy 551: Android 2.2 froyo running Samsung Galaxy 551 is the only QWERTY mobile phone in my this price review. Its also equipped with 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS. 3.2 inches touchscreen has 240 X 400 pixels resolution. If you are looking for a cheap QWERTY Android mobile phone from Samsung than nothing can beat Galaxy 551. It is priced 12,500 INR($275). Amazon.com asks only $215 for unlocked Samsung I5510 Galaxy 551.

American mobile carrier AT&T gives the users the taste of Google Android 2.2 froyo on their HTC Aria mobile phone. After the release of Aria it runs Android 2.1 Éclair. It will hopefully update your phone’s performance. So do it now, this must make you HTC Aria mobile experience better.

After a long wait Google finally decides to give Google Nexus One users the taste of Android 2.3 gingerbread (actually 2.3.3). But it is frustrating that the OTA update will take more than a month in some countries. And if you have problem with your mobile data package then OTA update is not possible for you. So here’s the solution for you. You might try to upgrade your Google Nexus One firmware to Gingerbread 2.3.3 manually. It’s not very tough. But you must installed the latest firmware of Android 2.2 to install this update manually.

Last 2 months all the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturers are busy with just announcing their new gadgets, especially tablets. Now after months we know their price. Vodafone Portugal will sell Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 there. They will give it to you in March if you are ready to spend just €700 for it. I think the price of Galaxy Tab 10.1 is reasonable.
Still we don’t heard anything from Vodafone UK about Galaxy Tab 10.1.

European sites again win the races to start pre-order of Samsung Galaxy S II Android mobile phone- the most powerful mobile phone no the planet now. Different sites in UK, Sweden and Germany starts pre-ordering of this magnificent mobile phone. And the price varies a lot. All the versions are SIM free unlocked.

Online UK retailer Play.com is asking £650(almost $1050) for unlocked Galaxy S II 16GB mobile phone, which is €760. But the good thing is they will give you the phone in March 31. Even they write that regular retail price of SIM free unlocked 16 GB Samsung Galaxy S II will be £679.99($1,096).

In the box of of Samsung Galaxy S II from play.com you will find:

Samsung Galaxy S II phone

Battery

USB Mains charger

MicroUSB data dable

Stereo handsfree

Quick start guide

A Swiss offers the cheapest price among all the sellers. They will pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S II at just €550($760). But they will ship the phone in late May.

After a long wait Google finally informs their 1st Google Phone- HTC Google Nexus One users will get Android 2.3 Gingerbread update soon. Today Google post it on their official twitter account and saying that it may takes few weeks to complete the process in all countries. In the mean time Google Nexus S also getting the same update- Android 2.3.3. It is expected that this update will fixes various bugs and random reboots have been addressed.

This is a great news for the Google Nexus One users. Because they are waiting anxiously for this gingerbread update and to see the new face of their phone.

The Android 2.3.3 update in question will bring more NFC capabilities to the Nexus S. From now you will be able to write rewritable NFC tags and new API support for developers to fully utilize the near-field communication chip.

But if are a Nexus S users then one thing for you. If you have your Facebook contacts synced, they’ll all get erased. Google has decided to take this step. As Facebook doesn’t really use the Android contacts API to store contacts on the handset, thus making them impossible to export. So Google is against it and they decide to stop sync Facebook contacts in the Nexus S and future “lead devices”.

All the Google Nexus One and Nexus S will get this Android 2.3.3 upgrade Over-The-Air(OTA) in few weeks.Source

After several announcements from UK mobile carriers now we can get the price tag of PSP like Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play. UK based Play.com starts the pre order of XPERIA Play at £519.99($841). This is the price of Unlocked SIM Free version of the mobile phone. But the release date is not confirmed yet.

Long waited lapdoc featuring Motorola Atrix 4G phone is released now over the US. Mobile carrier AT&T and several other online stores offers this 4g mobile phone on different prices.
The Motorola Atrix 4G is now available in the US from several stores and predictably, the price at each store varies. Prices start from $129.99 with an AT&T contract or you can go for the bundle with the laptop dock included.

Among those price Walmart contract price is lowest offer for Atrix 4g. They offers $129.99 for Motorola 4g mobile phone with contract starting from $59.99 per month. Next up is Amazon US and RadioShack. They both offer Motorola Atrix 4g phone at $149.99. RadioShack also offers the Motorola Atrix 4G with Lapdock bundle for $479.99.

AT&T offers Motorola Atrix 4g mobile for for $199.99 with a 2 year plan starting from $39.99/month plus a mandatory $15/month (or more) data plan. Laptop dock is bundled with Atrix 4g for $499.99. You'll have to get it on a 2-year contract for a $45/month data plan. If the data plan price is big for you then AT&T offers you another way. You can buy the Lapdoc alone at $499.99 and then buy the phone separately. To order you AT&T Motorola Atrix 4G mobile phone with your suitable deal then go to their official store now.

It seems that UK mobile users will pass a very busy time with increasing number of mobile phones coming in April 2011. After a bunch of HTC mobile phones announcements from Vodafone, Three UK & Orange it’s the time for O2. And they offer an exclusive version of Android 2.3 gingerbread mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. From the official twitter page of O2, we know that they will sell Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play mobile phone in April 2011. If you forget- Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play is the 1st smartphone in the world having PSP like control panel.
Most importantly O2 also announced that they are the only carriers in UK offering white version of XPERIA Play Android phone. That’s sound nice! In the photos we found in flickr we see the front and back side of Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play phone. As we see white XPERIA sits in its white dock. But UK O2 forget to show the Sony Playstation like gaming controls in the photos. They users DK300 dock and we don’t know the price of DK300 price yet. O2 still doesn’t say anything about Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play phone white version price. Source

Few hours ago in a post i mentioned that Amazon German site pre-orders HTC Desire S mobile phone on €499. And now i come to say that they also offers HTC High Performance Incredible S phone on €519($710). HTC Incredible S also runs Google Android 2.2 froyo (upgradable to v2.3 gingerbread) on 1 GHz Scorpion CPU.

HTC Incredible S mobile phone is better than Desire S phone in both display and camera section. It has a 4.0 inches S-LCD 16M Display with 8 Megapixel camera with 720p video recording capability. These are the main difference between HTC Desire S and HTC Incredible S Android phones.
But unfortunately Amazon Germany doesn’t say anything about HTC Incredible S release date. But we guess that’s not before April. Most of smart phones announced in MWC like LG Optimus 3D, HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play will be released in April 2011.

HTC Desire S is still remains hot in the upcoming Android phones list. HTC just announced it week earlier in MWC 2011. Its coming with Android latest version 2.3 gingerbread and incredible 16M color S-LCD capacitive 480 X 800 pixels 3.7 inches touchscreen. Already Amazon UK and Expansys UK start the pre-order of HTC Desire S mobile phone on their site. They are hoping to release this HTC phone in April 2011.
But they offer slightly different price of HTC Desire S phone. Amazon UK set unlocked HTC Desire S Android price to £419.99($682) while Expansys UK decides to sell it £10 higher, £429.99. In the mean time may may already heard that Vodafone UK also sells HTC Desire S phone. If you are looking for cheap HTC Desire S smart phone on a contract price then you might wait for Vodafone Desire S price notice.

Beside these Amazon German site offers both black and silver version of HTC Desire S. And they will sell unlocked Desire S phone on €499(£420).

HTC announced a number of exclusive Android phones in MWC 2011 this month. And after now UK Vodafone confirms that they offer 3 of these HTC mobile phones to their customers soon. Though the actual release date is still unknown.
Three HTC Android phones Vodafone will sells are HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC ChaCha. HTC ChaCha mobile phone is the 1st Android device comes with a facebook button and a restyled UI in a matching color.
But Vodafone doesn’t say any about the price of HTC Desire S phone, HTC Wildfire S and HTC ChaCha price. In the mean time we heard that other UK operators like Orange and Three will also sell HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S & HTC ChaCha.

LG Optimus 3D is one of the hottest announcements of MWC 2011. It is the 1st Android 2.2 froyo smartphone that has a 3D LCD capacitive 16M color touchscreen on the front and dual 5 megapixel stereoscopic cameras on the back. It’s processing power is also amazing too. LG Optimus 3D has dual-core 1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 CPU. PowerVR SGX540 GPU & TI OMAP4430 chipset onboard. Now it this LG Optimus 3D review I will show you best best pictures of LG Optimus 3D from every side.

During the keynote speech in MWC 2011 Google CEO, Eric Schmidt indicates how will Google approach with Android OS next.

According to him the next Android iteration will be a combination of Android 3.0 Honeycomb (for tablets) and Android 2.3 Gingerbread (for phones). But he don’t say anything about is it compatible with smartphone and tablet both? But we hope it will have integrated support for latest dual-core processors. Mr. Schmidt also mention that the second version will begin with the letter "i" and that it will be named after a dessert. Let's wait for that.

Samsung announced their cheaper price Android 2.2 running Galaxy Ace S5830 phone in last January. And the phone is already available in India by Flipkart at an amazing price of Rs. 14,999 where the international unlocked price of Samsung Galaxy Ace is over $500.

Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 is powered by a 800MHz processor(Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset), which is the fastest in any Android phones in Rs.15000 range in India. Galaxy Ace S5830 has a 3.5-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels like iPhone 3G. It has built in 5 megapixel camera with LED flash. 3G, Wi-Fi, Accelerometer, TouchWiz v3.0 UI, GPS all are here with Galaxy Ace S5830. And other Google services also present in Galaxy Ace S5830.If you are looking for a cheap Android phone below 15000 Rs range in India than Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 will be a very good choice for you. Checkout Flipkart site now to order you Galaxy Ace S5830 from India. They also offers cash on delivery.

Samsung Just announced their next Galaxy Tab in MWC three days ago. And it appears to be that Vodafone will be 1st operator in UK which are going to sell Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1(Galaxy Tab II/2). They publish the news via their official Twitter account. However, there is no other information about when Vodafone release Galaxy Tab 10.1 in UK or its price. They just mention that ‘ More info Soon’. We heard that the price of Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be around $1000. But no confirmation from Samsung yet.If you are interested to view some of early exclusive photo and specifications of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 then visit this site.

Before the official start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Samsung shows their next Galaxy S Tab to the world through models. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1(Galaxy Tab II) has a larger 10.1-inches display compared with 7-inches Galaxy Tab. It is one of the 1st tablets that will run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS at 1280 X 800 resolution. 8 MP HD recording camera is on the back of galaxy tab ii with dual built in surround speakers. A 1 GHz processor powers the Honeycomb tablet. 16 Gb, 32 Gb and 64 GB models of galaxy tab ii will be released.

Before the official start of MWC in Barcelona Samsung shows their next Galaxy S phone through models. And they called it Galaxy S II (not Galaxy S 2). The new Galaxy S II has 1 GHz dual-core processor, Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, 4.3″ Super AMOLED display, HSPA+, Bluetooth 3.0 + High Speed and gyro sensor. In addition, all these come in at an incredible 8.49 mm thickness and weigh 4.09 ounces. Samsung Hub also reports that Galaxy S II has a 8 megapixel 1080p full HD video recording camera at the back. Games Hub, Social Hub, Music Hub, and Readers Hub also included in Galaxy S II. It will able to play full HD content on TV. Samsung Galaxy S II has 16 GB and 32 GB storage.

Official Samsung event will starts 6:30PM CET (GMT+1) tonight.

Here's all the available photos of Samsung Galaxy S II from MWC premises.

The HTC Thunderbolt will be Verizon’s first 4G mobile device that runs Android 2.2 froyo OS. It is almost copy of HTC Inspire 4G on AT&T and HTC EVO 4G on Sprint. HTC Thunderbolt has 1GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8655 Snapdragon chip, 768MB RAM, HTC Sense 2.0 UI and a 4.3-inch screen. The HTC 4G CDMA LTE set has the ability for simultaneous voice and data over 3G. HTC Thunderbolt will be available on US in this February.

Before that, I would like show some of HTC Thunderbolt 4G photos. These will give you a better look to the exterior of HTC Thunderbolt 4G.